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I don't trust Google. Nor should you
wnd.com ^ | 3/9/2015 | Lord Monckton

Posted on 03/09/2015 8:36:25 AM PDT by rktman

Let’s go back to the beginning of Google. The word itself is actually an error. The word the infant geeks who founded Google were looking for was “Googol,” the mathematicians’ term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes – a very large number. And have they corrected their mistake? No.

Google execs like to claim the corporation was founded in a garage. No, it wasn’t. The truth is, it was founded in a swank suburban villa on a leafy street. There was a garage attached, and the geeks set up a couple of old computers in there and typically spent one day a month there so that they could later claim Google was just another trad Silicon-valley start-up.

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To: Lakeshark

LOL! I’d like to slap them in the face.


21 posted on 03/09/2015 8:59:42 AM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

SUPPOSEDLY the ad picking logic is local to your browser.


22 posted on 03/09/2015 9:00:56 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: rktman
This is what Google wants you to drive, uh, not drive...


23 posted on 03/09/2015 9:01:17 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: Lakeshark

Well that was a bit of hubris that blew up on them the moment anything more morally complex than don’t steal your little sister’s candy came into view.


24 posted on 03/09/2015 9:02:45 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: alexander_busek
Twenty years ago, you couldn't have found out all those things without access to a good, open-stack library

I remember when quests for knowledge required trips to the library — usually the local library, but often a different local library, a regional library, or a university library.

Now, I click.

25 posted on 03/09/2015 9:04:26 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
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To: rktman
LOL! I’d like to slap them in the face.

I think I would too, and that would be a GOOD thing.....

:-)

26 posted on 03/09/2015 9:07:12 AM PDT by Lakeshark
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Try to remember to try it.


27 posted on 03/09/2015 9:09:22 AM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Somehow I see them using the motto WHILE they steal their little sisters candy........

After all, she likely needed some moral clarity from their superior algorithms.

28 posted on 03/09/2015 9:12:05 AM PDT by Lakeshark
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To: rktman

29 posted on 03/09/2015 9:14:12 AM PDT by Mich Patriot (Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown were judged by the content of their character.)
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To: Michael.SF.

I stopped using Bing because I hated their constant pictures.


30 posted on 03/09/2015 9:17:00 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: bgill

There are fringe engines like Teoma. I never could figure it out worth a hoot.

Google is a one trick phenomenon. Because it’s so big it doesn’t have the impetus to improve more. How is it they can produce a self driving car but can’t keep subsequent pages of results from being repeated?


31 posted on 03/09/2015 9:20:05 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: rktman

I tried googling google once. Apparently I started an infinite recursion loop that ended up crashing all the computers in Newfoundland. To this day i still get occasional death threats from IT guys in St. Johns.

=^)

CC


32 posted on 03/09/2015 9:21:15 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Sufficient unto the day are the troubles therof)
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To: Celtic Conservative

LOL! Recurring circular do loop. Nicely done. :>}


33 posted on 03/09/2015 9:23:43 AM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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To: ßuddaßudd
I use google because they don’t have ads on their page,, and only for that reason...

They may not have ads on their page (other than "Sponsored" hits), but they're collecting data on you that the other ads you see on the web are using to target you.

You are not Google's customer. You are (or, rather, your personal information is) their product.

34 posted on 03/09/2015 9:24:39 AM PDT by kevkrom (I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
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To: rktman
The sad part is that EVERYTHING ends up going through IE

If you are using Windows, that is mostly true. IE is used as a backend process across most of Microsoft's products since Windows 98. Anything requiring a web-based hook will use IE in the background unless you open it in another browser.

Also, for anyone who's reading, if you want more privacy, you should consider changing the DNS servers you use as well. Most ISPs piggyback on Google's DNS server (8.8.8.8) which means all of your lookups go through them anyway. Check out OpenDNS and change the DNS servers on all of your computers or your home router to one of the local DNS servers for your region.

OpenDNS does not log your DNS lookups long term like your ISP might.

35 posted on 03/09/2015 9:33:30 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: bgill

So Bing wins one a loses one.


36 posted on 03/09/2015 9:33:42 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (It takes a gun to feed a village (and an AK 47 to defend it).)
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To: rarestia

Thanks.


37 posted on 03/09/2015 9:36:09 AM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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To: kevkrom

I agree . .


38 posted on 03/09/2015 9:36:42 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: Mich Patriot

I for one am overjoyed I can sit at the comfort of my desk or couch to find limitless info at a very rapid speed. I hated having to drive to a library, shift thru card catalogs or hassle with a sexy librarian, often having to wait in line.
Libraries have no purpose anymore. They should be defunded, closed, and land sold.Funds should be given back to taxpayers . Lougle is all we need. Thanks to lougle I can now sit back in my hot tub sipping one of my exotic foreign beers, a Russian one is my current favorite. And the only dreams of libraries I have now are the memories of those hot librarians legs in pantyhose and heels oh yeah lol. There was one hot young blond who always wore miniskirts and stilleto heels. And she enjoyed showing all her assets off. Of course, one can find that and much much more on lougle.


39 posted on 03/09/2015 9:39:44 AM PDT by Deathtomarxists
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To: rktman

Would I trust what Wikipedia had to say about Ronald Reagan ... NO! Would I trust what it has to say about the flight speed of an African swallow? ... Probably so.


40 posted on 03/09/2015 9:42:59 AM PDT by The Duke
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